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Now our flag is flung to the wild winds free, Let it float o'er our fatherland, And the guard of its spotless fame shall be Columbia's chosen baud. ..: DRMOCRiTIC STATE EXECIPME COMMITTER. A meeting of the Democratic State Executive Committee will be held at the Buehler Donee, Harrisburg, on Wednes day, January 15, 1862, at 3 o'clock, P. H. Dembcratic papers in the State will please copy. WJi LTA.SI H. WELSH, Chairman. TROUBLE WITH ENGLAND. The Royal mail steamer Europa arrived ai Halifax on Sunday, having the Queen's mes senger on board with dispatches for Lord Lyons, the British Minister. The London Observer states that the Gov ernment has demanded from President Lincoln the restoration of the persons of the Southern envoys, Mason and Slidell, to the British Government, and an apology for the insult offered the British flag. • The London Times, in alluding to the de cision of the British Cabinet, that the arrest of Mason and Slidell is a clear violation of the law of Nations, believes that Lord Lyons will be instructed to demand reparation, and, if not complied with, will be farther instructed to withdraw the legation from Washington. The Morning Star doubts the allegations of the Observer and Times, or at least thinksl them premature. A few days will probably determine whether we aro to have peace or war with. England. THE PRESIDENT AND GEN. McCLEL- The statement made by Mr. THADDEUS STEVENS, in the Republican caucus at Wash ington, that Gen. MCCLELLAN went to the Pres ident and threatened to resign in case Mr. CAMERON'S report respecting the emancipation and the arming of the slaves, was sent into Congress unmodified, is made the occasion of a direct attack upon Gen. MCCLELLAN, and an implied censure of the President, by that por tion of the Republican press, which is deter mined to pervert the war for the Union into a crusade against slavery. The New York Evening Post characterizes this act of General MCCLELLAN as " not only an impertinence, but an act of insubordination," and insists that the Commander-in Chief of the army hae nothing to do with the policy or the political aims of the Government, and urges his arrest upon the President. Now, Mr. STEVENS' state ment may be true or it may he false—we would not like to accept it as a verity upon his unsupported word; but supposing that Gen. MCCLELLAN did inform the President that he would resign in case the war Was degraded from its high and holy purpose into an aboli tion crusade, he did nothing more than he had a perfect right to do. It was not an attempt to dictate to the President the policy that should be pursued by the Government, 'but simply a notification from the Command er-in-Chief, that in case a certain policy was adopted, the G:vernment could not count upon his services. That was all. Nothing like dic tation in this. General MCCLELLAN, we imagine, knows his position too well to at tempt anything like dictation to his superiors —but at the same time he is the sole guardian of his own honor, and has a right to retire from the high office he holds whenever he deems it neeessars. It is not at all probable that Gen. MCCLELLAN obtruded his opinion upon the President, but that the remark which Mr. STEVENS and his fellow Abolitionists con strue into insolent dictation, was, if ever made, elicited by the President calling upon the Commander in-Chief for his opinion. THE PUBLIC DEBT From the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury—a lengthy synopsis of which we publish in to-day's paper—it will be seen that the public debt was as follows, viz : July 1, 1860, $64,769,793.08. July 1, 1861, $90,867,828.68. And his estimates of the debt for the follow. log years are as follows, viz July 1, 1862, July 1, 1863, We have condensed this able document, within as short a compass as it was possible, in order to give our readers a full and satis factory view of the, all-important subjects of the loans, the currency, the taxes, &c., on which it treats—and no one can fail to read it but with deep and absorbing interest. The Secretary's suggestions with regard to raising the vast amount of money needed to carry on the war, will attract universal attention. We make no apology for occupying so much space with the report. It concerns everybody, and everybody will be anxious to read it. AN OTHER BATTLE,. A battle was fought on the 13th inst., in Pocahontas county, Western Virginia, be tween 750 Union men, under command of Gen. Milroy, and 2000 rebels under command of Gen. Johnson, of Georgia. The rebels were, defeated with a loss of 200. The Union loss is about 40. FIRE AT CHARLESTON A terrible fire, supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, broke out at Charles ton, S. C., on Wednesday night last, and destroyed an immense amount of valuable property—amongst other buildings the well known Mille Hotel and the Catholic Cathe draL The fire continued to rage all day on 4 1' hrirsday. 11. S. SZNATOIL—Hon. GARRETT DAVIS has been elected IL-S. Senator from Kentucky, to fill •the eeat vacated by the .resignation and ----eipulf;on.._of John C. Breakbridge.. Mr. Vese ` his` cOntrtt.tor for- "the caucus nowiztal.i9, , ao 14481;14%t0n only one Tote by . ==M9 ABOLITIONISTS RAMPANT. It seems, says the Police Gazette, as though , we are never to get rid of the everlaetine nigger, but-that he is to be distied np-in us;' ieißm rning„ noon and !light, in such form; and ~- eAteber toinokihhs.,.think irOadttP.,tid to, ir . nialignant purposedThe.l'resiaent ia ividentli jtist and nonserVative, inlis ipelicy,: which does, not snit theite fire;eating 14.b01i-', 1 tieniste,;tuid thetire4lirtertni#ol;l4nsiblSl 1 to drive him to following their Plans. 'To thh3 end they are holdisiktancuses, offering reso lutions in Congress, making speeches and cutting up various other antics characteristic of the race, but they_ areslestined to disap pointment, as we do not believe that President LiNcots will ever submit to become a party to their insane plans. - Congress has no au. thority whatever to abolish slavery in any' 'State; and if they should _ pass _an _act to that effect it would be.void_in itself, and we would be sure to elect men to the next - Congress that would wipe the illegal enactment from the stattite book. It is full time 'that something Was done With these . incendiaries, for they are really doing more injury to the country thSn the Secessionists, and if the President would direct his Marshals to take charge of one Lovzsoy and one &warm, who have obtained seats in Congress, and also about two or three hundred of their oo'conspirators outside of Congress, and give them a berth at Fort La fayette or Warren, he would do the country more good than could be accomplished by an arniy of fifty ,thousand men. These are the men who have been instrumental in'plunging the country into war, and now they are doing everything in their power to prolong it, and to add to its horrors. They _do not enlist either as soldiers or officers, for they fear to meet a hail-storm of leaden bullets ; but they stay at home, seek for contracts or fat offices, _ and then occupy their leisure time in concoct- ing schemes that must result in making the strife more sanguinary than the most blood thirsty could desire. There must be an end put to'their operations, and that soon, or more evil will ensue. INDICATIONS OF DANGER Late advices from Washington lead to the conclusion that there is very great danger impending over the Union. If the extreme men in Congress succeed in their radical de signs all hopes of a reconstruction of the Confederacy will have gone perhaps for ever. In the Republican caucus, held in Wash ington on Monday evening of last week, we learn from the special report of the New York Tribune, that the struggle between the leaders was, not to suggest temperate means for the consideration of their followers, but to see who could go the farthest in his suggesting extreme and impracticable measures, and THADDEIM STEVENS, of OAT own State, seems to have been the successful competitor. Speaking of the debate, the Tribune's correspondent remarks: " THAD. STEVENS followed in his best vein, maintaining the policy of the reso lution, and in the course of his remarks declared that although be had long been estranged politically from Secretary CAMERON, he must acknowledge that he was the only member of this administration who had evinced any correct notions of the true method of prosecuting the war, and bringing it to a speedy and successful close. He startled the caucus by declaring that after Mr. CAMERON'S report had been accepted by the President, Gen. MCCLELLAN went to him and threatened to resign if it was sent into Congress with the passage respecting the emancipation and arm ing of the slaves of rebels unmodified." From this extract it will be seen that STEVENS and his coadjutors are against the Presi dent's policy and favorable to that of CAMERON, which the President suppressed. Now STE— VENS knows that the proposition of CAMERON to, arm the slaves was but the trick of a poli tician, because a man honestly entertaining such extreme opinions never would have re-' called them to retain a seat in the Cabinet, in which he was never welcome. But General CAMERON in this, as in all his political profes sions, was governed by the shrewdest selfish ness and policy. Having succeeded in displa cing FREMONT he is now anxious to supplant him in the affections of the abolitionists of the country, and have himself recognized as the man in advance of the times " upon the question of the day." AN OUTBURST OP SYMPATHY Some sixty negroes—and perhaps twice as many whites—are now confined in the Jail of Washington City. Most of the negroes were arrested by the city police as escaped " con trabands," and for various offences against the municipal authorities of the city.. Senator WILSON, having learned these facts, brought the subject to the attention of the Senate, and asked the appointment of a committe of inves tigation. Here a display of Abolition sympa thy for the negro burst forth in all its glory. The old jail was an "Austrian Dungeon"— a "stinking, filthy, pestilential hole," worse than the " Black Hole of Calcutta." Now, all this may be true enough. But why have these philanthropists neglected so long this crying abuse? The Washington Star informs us that this "Austrian Dungeon" has been pre sented by the Grand Jury of Washington over twenty times within the last ten years ; and we remember very well that while in 1854 '55 and 56, when the city , was under the control of the "Blood Tubs," "Plug Uglies" &c., in other words, the Know Nothings, this old prison was filled with " Dutch," " Irish," and other white folks, Congress was perfectly quiet then. The old jail was quite good enough for its denizens then. But now, when Sambo is concerned these false•hearted philanthropists are filled with horror. We had supposed that these fellows would be satisfied when they would raise the negro to a level with the white man ; but now it seems that they are determined that the negro shall not be submitted to the degradation heaped upon white men. $517,372,802.93 $897;372,802.93 Commander POOR, tried for allowing the Sumter to escape from New Orleans, when he was in command of the Brooklyn, blockading that port, was acquitted by the Court, and the finding has been approved by Secretary Welles. star We clip the above paragraph from an exchange, and are gratified that justice has been done this gallant and accomplished offi cer, who is a resident of this city. It is also a source of great gratification to his numerous friends here. No higher toned or more honor able gentleman, or truer, braver or more effi cient officer graces the galaxy of our Amer-- jean Naval commanders. General PATTERSON has demanded a Court of Inquiry. The necessary papers were for warded to the authorities, on November let, bat no response has been received. Recently the matter has again been agitated by the General, but, as before, without any definite results. It is stated that Gen. SCOTT would be effected by a Court of Inquiry called for the purpose of investigating the conduct of General Plernasox in the Virginia campaign, and a Washington correspondent done of the New York journals gives this as a reason for not instituting such an inquiry. The friends of General PAITERSON, on the other hand, allege, that the demand for a court was pre. ferred before General SCOTT left the country, and declare that an official report of the own ; pain mutt be phtained._ CAPTAIN POOR ACQUITTED GEN. PATTERSON VNITIGO DIRECT TAX• The direct tax assessed upon the value of all the real estate in the U. States, to raiseAl e .. 4mmual sum of twenty millions of 4144 W jays .. .1111e Philadelpl4l,\Ledger,., has been oVoirlOolted by , Ailany AcOos uncle q ImPiession that-there liAutOrie nathiPak'taik Athe ino9me tai) to he. pai& By la*.isl" Vongrees,', approved Abiust it,vias +go— Videlk3 order to raise,the above mention _ annual sum, that each State Should be com— pelled to furnish a certain proportion of. that amount, which is to be collected in the follow ing manner : Assessors, appointed by the President and approved by the Senate, will about the,first. of.,Mareh next, ascertain the value of each piece of real estate, the valua— tion being based upon the supposed money value of such property on the first day of _Propeity exempt from taxation is that belonging to the United States or any State, or that is permanently or specially exempted from which it is _situated. A deduction of five hundred dollars will be made from this valuation. All persons assessing taxable pro -perty, or persons having the care or manage— ment of sueheproperty, will be required to fur nish written -lists of it to the assessors. A false or fradulent list will subject the offender to a fine of five hundred dollars. After the estimates are completed, public notice-will be _giyepd:oy the assessors where theifbooks may _be seen, and corrections may be made. The place at which the payment of taxes will be made, will be published in a newspaper in each district twenty days before the tax becomes due, and if persons neglect to attend, according to notification, the collector will make personal aplication to them within sixty days after the receipt of the collection lists.— If then the taxes are not paid within another twenty days, he has power to collect by dis— traint. The income tax, which will be levied on and after the first of January next, will be three per cent. on incomes above eight hun— dred dollars, except that portion of such income which is derived from Treasury. notes and other United States securities, on which the tax will be one and a half per cent. The tax is to be assessed on incomes dating from Jan— uary 1861. In estimating the income all Na tional, State and local taxes, assessed upon property from which the income is derived, will be first deducted. The payment of the tax will be due on or before the thirtieth day of June next, and all sums unpaid on that day will be subjected to an interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, and in default of payment being male within thirty days there— after, the collector is authorized to levy the sum on the visible property of the defaulter, and sell it, after due notice has been given.— If no visible property is found, the person as— sessed may be examined on oath, and any stock or bonds he may possess be old at public auction. A refusal to testify is punishable by imprisonment until the tax is paid. DEN. HALLECK SUSTAINED The first great conservative victory was gained in Congress, on Wednesday last, when the resolution offered by Mr. LeNemo, of New York, condemning the order of Gen. HALLECK relative to fugitive slaves, was laid on the table, on motion of Mr. VALLANDIGLIAM, of Ohio, by a vote of yeas 78, nays 64. All the eloquent denunciations of Field Marshal THADDEUS STEVENS and General OWEN LOVE JOY could not induce the House to censure the gallant General HALLECK. These two Abo lition leaders thus spoke in substance : Mr. STEVENS said if the passage of this resolution is to have a good effect, especially in the West, the sooner it is passed the better. The allegation of Gen. Halleck as an excuse for his order, that the fugitive slaves whom he proposes to exclude from his lines give infor mation to the enemy, is too bold a pretence to justify him. The return of fugitives was ini tiated by McClellan and followed by Kelly, Dix, and others. All the cases are a disgrace to the profession of arms. If such return of fugitives has been'made by orders of the com manding Generals they deserve to have their epaulettes stripped from their shoulders. If by higher authority, then God forgive them, they know not what they do. Mr.LOVEJOY expressed his honest conviction that such orders were issued by the command ing General, without any authority from the President. He was satisfied of this fact. While the President does not remove and cash ier them, as he (Mr. Lovejoy) would advise, did he not believe they had the power for any such inhuman and shameful measures. As far as can be ascertained, the testimony of every General in the field is that the slaves are true, loyal and faithful. While with Gen. McDowell, previous to the battle of Bull Run, that General carefully enquired of every black fugitive with regard to the movements and positions of the enemy, and the topography of the country. They are the most reliable scouts we have, and he thought it most shameful, mean and contemptible for the Major Generals of the army to slander a race already sufficient ly disgraced. A SPECIMEN OF THE RECKLESSNESS OF THE REPUBLICAN Paitss —Just before the late elec tion for Mayor of New York city, the Eevning Post, a virulent Republican organ, in order to get votes for the Republican candidate—Op-' dyke—declared that there was a Secession organization in New York called the Peace Society, which held its stated and regular meetings ; that Fernando Wood, one of the Democratic candidates for Mayor, belonged to it, and that Mr. Gunther, the other, was its Secretary. Gunther and Wood got about 50,- 000 votes to Opdyke's 25,000. So, if we are to believe the Republican organ, two thirds of the voters of New York city have cast their ballots for Secession candidates ! It is thus that the reckless mendacity of the Republican press does infinite harm by creating the false , impression that there is a formidable Seces sion party in the North.—Cincinnati Enqui rer. The Republicans did the same thing in this State last fall. Every candidate who did not come square down in support of Republican principles was denounced as a " Secessionist." Every man who did not swear that ABRAHAM LINCOLN was infallible, and all the contractors were honest and honorable men, was branded as a traitor who was trying to embarrass the Administration. GEN• EcCLELLAN'S THREATENED RESIGNATION. The story, originated by THADDEUS STEVENS; that Gen. MCCLELLAN had threatened to resign unless the report of the Secretary of War was modified, appears to be without foundation.— It seems that Mr. STEVENS only said that ho bad heaid the report distinctly asserted, with• out vouching for its truth. The Washington Star contradicts the whole story and says it " grew out of the fact that it is well known here that Gen. McClellan, and, indeed, every other general officer now in the service on this line, whether regular or volunteer, is of opin ion that for Congress to essay to make the war one for the abolition of slavery, rather than, as originally designed, a war for the restora. tion of the Union as our fathers made it, will be to insure the eventual success of the rebel lion of Jeff. Davis & Co." ORDINATION OF &MOP STEVENS.-WO learn that the Rev. W. BACON STEVENS, D. D., As sistant Bishop elect of this diocese, will be consecrated to the. Episcopal office on New Year's day, the consent of the canonical num ber of dioceses thereto, having been obtained, and forwarded to the Presiding Bishop, (BROWNELL, of Connecticut.) ger.ln the case of Catharine N. Forrest against Edwin 'Forrest, a full bench of the §aperior Court of New York, has decided against the metion of defendant for, a new trial, and pcofned the aTrard,,pf $4OOO a year alimony. IMSA.TOI6I 1.11.1711.111VL1. 0g Wild cos: STITIITION. The Senator from Illinois, in introducing his . bill for the confiscation of rebel property, made a noble appeal-for the Constitution.l„ In this respect, says the/curt/5g of pmuncri;o# speech was an excalleat.. nu 61•kh debates in Washington, Off' it iatiiihe htifed i that it will prove a leadipg speeclOo be4pl-:1 .lowed by all the Senators . , so far,,alit_it, , relales' the prosecution of 44in. a \ dkofairig to the Constitution and law. We do not mean to 'express an approval of all his views. From some we dissent entirely, but it is wholly tin necessary now to express or argue the partic- I niers-of-that dissent. -The general principle whiekhe advocates in the following faS4agee, will be recognized by our readers as the views which _we have maintained with our utmost ability, and views which *some ardent oppo nerds have_actnally stigmatised as.l!.red:tape-. ism" and "treason." Com i ng Pow from this eminent and able Republican Senator, we trust they may make aprofound.impression on those who have hitherto refused to adopt them. Let us stand by . the Constitution : " I want no other authority for putting down even this gigantic rebellion than such as may be derived from the Constitution properly in terpreted. It is equal even to this great emer gency, and the more we study its provisions, the more it is tried in troublone times, the greater will be our admiration for the instru ment and our veneration for its authors. . As unpopular as the avowal may be for the moment among the thoughtless, There declare that I am for suppressing this monstrous rebellion accord ing to law;and in no other way, and I believe 'that Congress has only to discharge its duty, and the army perform its With energy and activity, to bring the war to a speedy and sue cessful issue. We are fighting to maintain the Constitution, and it especially becomes us in appealing to the people to come to its reseue, not to violate it ourselves. How" are we better than the rebels if both alike set' at nought the Constitution? I warn my countryneen who stand ready to tolerate any act done in good faith for the suppression of the rebellion, not to sanction usurpations of power whichutay here after become precedents for the destruction of constitutional liberty. * * * * But while fighting this battle in behalf of Constitutional liberty, it behooves us especially to see to it that the Constitution receives no detriment at our hands. We will have gained but little in suppressing the insurrection if it he at the eipense of the .Constitution, for the chains which the bondman wears are none the lighter because they were pressed by his own and not another's hands. As we expect to come out of this contest with our flag full and complete in all its proportions, not a stripe erased or a star obscured, so let us preserve the Constitution perfect in all its parts, -with all its guaranties for the protection of life and liberty unimpaired, and the instrument itself rendered doubly dear from the fact that it has been sacredly maintained and proved equal to every emergency, under circumstances the most trying to which a natioti was ever sub jected. Then, when this struggle is over, we will have an assurance that our Government is stronger than ever before, and that Consti tutional Liberty is established on a foundation which no human power will ever be able to subvert. ABOLITION CONSPIRACY The N. Y. Herald, in a long article, treats of the Abolition movements, speeches, eto., against the Administration and President Lincoln, as a conspiracy to overthrow it—and then dernands summary measures against the conspirators. The Herald, to establish this ' fact, cites what some of the Abolition journals are saying, thus : The Boston Liberator says that " Mr. Lincoln has already received the stigma of the slavehound of Illinois." "We have a right to proclaim loudly," it continues, " against the infamy with which he has viola ted the Constitution." Yet it adds that " the Constitution of the U. S. was ' cursed with a curse' as soon as it was made," and calls on Congress to " lose no time in enacting the total abolition of slavery, unconditionally, throughout the country." It spits out venom against the flag of the Union and asserts that " the eagle of the United States is a very de formed, obscene, thievish, gluttonous and cruel beast," and that "not the slightest faith ought to be put in this foul, lazy creature !" The Anti Slavery Standard calls our patriotic Chief Magistrate the " unlocked fur assistant of Beauregard and Davis," and falsely accuses him of having " quenched the enthusiasm of the people, and done more to paralyze the northern arm than all the successes of the Secessionists."—Ecehan These Abolition papers are allowed to con— demn the Administration as much as they please—they arc even permitted to denounce the Constitution and the Union, and we never hear that the editors are punished or the papers suppressed. For using language, not one tenth part as bitter as the above—not against the Constitution, not against the Government, only in reference to a mere tem porary Administration, Democrats have been gagged, thrown into prison, and their lives en dangered by the foul miasma of badly venti lated and unhealthy dungeon cells. Where, we ask, is the justice that tolerates these life long enemies of the Constitution in scattering their poison broadcast over the land without fear of arrest or imprisonment, while those whose devotion to that sacred instrument was never before doubted, dare not even expose the frauds which have become a stench in everybody's nostrils, without being libeled as traitors, and, perhaps, made to suffer a trai tor's punishment ? THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE LEWIS' GYMNASTIC MONTHLY AND JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CULTURE.—We have received from the Editor, D. Lrivis, M. D., the first or January number of this excel lent little periodical, devoted to the education of youth in gymnastic exercise, or physical education. It is illustrated with a large number' of explanatory cuts or figures, and the explanations and directions are made so plain that nose ran fail to understand them. The work le published at Roston, and we bespeak for it the liberal patronage which it so richly merits. QODEY'S LADY'S BOOK for January, 1852, is already before us. It is the first number of a new volume, and evinces the 'same untiring energy and determination to outstrip all other magazines that ever characterize Qodey. No lady should be without this work. The terms of the Lady's Book are as follows, cash in advance, viz : One copy one year, $3; two copies one year, $5; three copies one year, $6; four copies one year, $7; five conies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the dub, $10; eight copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, $l5; eleven copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, $2O. TILE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.—Read what the Louts vil le Journal says of this valuable paper: "We do not believe that even in this age of cheap pub lications any work can be more reasonably than the terms of the Scouvrtm AMERICAN at $2 per annum, with twenty flve per cent. discount for clubs of ten. 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No one should visit that city without calling at their pa latial establishment, which la a museum of inventive genius, collected from the entire world. If any of our friends away off in the country do not know ibis work, and will take our advice, they will mail $2 and become subscribers immediately, or by applying to the Publishers they can obtain a specimen copy gratis, which will be sure to confirm the truth of our recommendation." We fully indorse the above, and would recommend our readers to take Prentice's 'advice, and subscribe for the paper. .& new volume commences on the fint of January, and it being a valuable work of reference, containing, as it does, the only official list of patent claims' published in the country, every number should be preserved. The pa per is published every Patnrdai, by the well known patent agents, Messrs.-Muss & Co., who have conducted the pa per during the past sixteen years. In addition to furnishing spevlmen copies of the paper gratis, the publishers will send a pamphlet of advice to inventors, flee of charge. Address, MUNN & CO., 37 Park Row, New York. MILITARY MEASURES IN CANADA.—The Corn mander of the British forces in Canada, which now number nearly 10,000 men, has received instructions from the home Government to grant no further permission of leave to officers, and to retain the body of troops within his immediate supervision. In consequence of this order, Sir Fenwick Williams is said to have recalled all absent officers and is now engaged in exorcising his forces with a view to securing their highest efficiency. MINOREL—The regulations just issued by the War Department, - contains a paragraph defining the duties of recruiting, and it is expressly declared that no minor shall be en listed unless mritten consent of E4e parent is LOCAL DEPARTMENT. TES FIRST DEATH IN COL. HAMBRICHT'S BZEITIIIRT.—EIXIMEL H. CLUB, a private in Capt. Kickers kikTeircompany, Col. Hambrigilt's Regirnent, died at Cum) Negley. Kentucky on the 6th lost, from an attack tr ~ .• old Pneumonia, after rine days' illness. His remains +are interred near Nolbr,ln ktsi Ilse of the.Naibville Reg. rosd. He died atthe age of 21 years, Peace - lb theyoung scildi ,Sitahas. ~ ,- :'- -': ! ' Tfer: LANCASTER ARMY Virio6xs,,.mantiftte -tamed' by Itlessis..S. B. Cox L. Co., at their Factory, in: thlke Meet,„Will6,n et to Pegyvillo, Md-.lLciday.: On yesterday, 111Weiriernteent teams, of one season and six males etch' were to leareterryvilie for this city. encamping last night on the way. They will reach Lancaster this morning. when twouLthe new wagons will be coupled to each of the teams, making a caravan of one hundred and fifty wagons and three hundred mules, the longest string of mules ever seen together in this city or connty. It will be a novel and in teresting eight. 1 'HE CONTESTED ELECTION CASE.—Tbe con tested election_for Prison Inspector and Director of the Poor was befoie the Court on. Saturday, the 7th instant— Judges LONG and Hares on the bench. The Court ordered that the Justice of the Peace who has in custody the ballot boxes of the .51st Election District (Mount Joy, new) be directed to produce them In Court on yesterday. The Court also authorized the issuing of commissions to take depudtions in the • case, in Col. Rambright'a Regiment, in iferittickf.' Thlearill take some time, and we suppose month will elapse before any decision can be made. LIEUT. WILLIAM L. BEAR. —A eorrospontlent at Camp Pierpont, Virginia, writes us in flattering terms of the conduct of Lieut' Wrratus L Brut, as Quartermaster of the First Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment. Lieut. B. is a resident of this city, and at the time he left for the seat of war was third in command of Capt. Barton's splendid company, the Union Guard'. and was promoted to his present position whilst the Regiment was stationed at Annapolis. Ile is a gentleman of modest and unobtrusive deportment, mild in nature but firm in purp-se, and at tends unremittingly to thp wahts of the gallant soldiers of his Regiment. He ie, as our correspondent says, 'the right man for the right place," and it'glves as much pleasure to record our mita& praise. . . . TUESDAY; December 10- A resolution was offered-in the Senate to-day, by Mr. Foote, that Waldo P. Johnson, of Missouri, be expelled from that body. It was laid over. Mr. Wilson introduced a bill for the organisation of the medical department of the army, which was referred ,to the Committee, on Military Affairs. Mr Hale called up the resolution offered on Monday that the Committee 'on Judiciary be- instructed to inquire into the expediency of aboliahing the presentjudmial system of the. United States, and establishing another in pursuance of the Constitution, and it was agreed to. Mr. Chandler announced the death of-Hon. Einaley B. Bingham, late Senator from Michigan, and offered the customary resolution that the Senate go into mourning for thirty-days, which was adopted, after remarks by Messrs. King, Clark and Sumner. Thilionse adopted a resolution that the Attorney General be requested to report his views as to the means of obtaining. a retrocession of that part of Virginia formerly comprising a part of the District of Columbia. Mr. Potter, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported a bill providing homesteads for actual settlers, and a bounty , for soldiers, instead of grants of public lands ; it contains a section giv ing a bounty of thirty dollars to the three months volunteers. The consideration of the bill was post poned until next Wednesday. The House concurred in the resolution freed the Senate for a joint com mittee to inquire into the conduct of the present .war with power to send for persons and papers. Mr. Pendleton, of Ohid, moved that the memorial of Messrs. Howard, Gatehell and Davis be referred back to the Committee on the Judioiary, with instructions declaring that Congress alone had power, under the Constitution, to suspendthe privilege-of the writ of habeas corpus; that the exercise of that power by any other department of the Government is a urnir 'ration and dangerous to public liberty; that the persons above named be delivered to the Marshal, to the end that they may be indicted with the right of a speedy trial, if there be probable cause for snob • proceedings. He spoke at length on this subject, saying that these gentlemen were members of the Board of Police for the City of Baltimore, and on the first of July last, at the dead hour of night, were arrested by order- of the military authorities, and without charges being preferred against them, were conveyed as prisoners to Fort "MollemY. They ask that Congress may examine into the question, so that they, may be heard before a judicial tribunal, and yet his (Mr. Pendleton's) colleagues on the Committee on the Judiciary could ind no more fitting response to the memorial than that it should lie unanswered on the table. The question here presented was as to the legality of their present punishment, which he denied. The meanest criminal even, is within the reach of the, application of the writ of habeas corpus, and thiii right has never been denied by any Executive until now. Mr. Pendleton said, in the course of his argu ment, that when the Constitution was framed there was no principle more incontrovertible than that Parliament alone could suspend the writ of habeas corpus. The resolution was a protest against usurpation, and it could not be believed that our forefathers, who had so earnestly engaged in scouring personal liberty, would contract the bounds of freedom and enlarge the bounds of Executive power. If the President can suspend one provision of the Constitution, he can suspend them all, and reduce this nation to the condition of slaves, by changing the theory of the Government. Any nation willing to adopt this theory is so lost to a manly sense of independence and dignity, and to a just consciousness of their courage and duty of defending the GoVernment, that the yoke is a fit emblem and a just token of their degradation. If this theory shall be endorsed, the precedent will give authority in the future to ambitious men, until public virtue will be destroyed, the national character tarnished and love of liberty destroyed, and the country . become a prey to any tyrant. One successful invasion of any right depreciates its value and weakens the means of a rightful resistance. No one should listen to the doctrine of State ne cessity—the history of which is written on the wreck of public liberty. Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, replied to Mr. Pendleton, and moved that the subject be laid on the table, which was carried by a vote of 108 to 26. i Eulogies on the late Senator Bingham were de livered by several members, and the usual resolu tions of respect passed. WEDNESDAY ' December 11. The proceedings in the Senate to-day were un usually interesting, rendered so by the eulogies on the late Senator Baker, which were delivered by Messrs. Nesmith, McDougal, Browning, Cowan, Dixon,Sumner and Latham, and the presence of Presient Lincoln. Mr. Sumner presented a petition for rebels the ema ncipation of the slaves—those of the without compensation, and those of Union men to be paid for. On motion of Mr. Wilson, it , was resolved that the Committee on Military Affairs ' be instructed to report what reduction may be made in the expenses of the army. Mr. Powell presented resolutions from the Legislature of Kentucky, asking that Congress afford some relief to the people of ! Ireland. The memorial of the New York Chamber of Commerce, relating to the establishment of a line of mail steamers between San Francisco and China, was presented by Mr. Harris and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Chandler offered a resolution instructing the Military Committee to in quire into the expediency of appointing a joint Committee of the two Houses of Congress, who shall have power to retire any improper officers of the army or navy, which was agreed to. Bills were in troduced by Mr. Harris to establish a new military and mail route to Baltimore, and by Mr. Wilson to increase the number of cadets at West Point. In the House a resolution was adopted that all memorials, resolutions and documents, which may be presented for the recognition of the independence of Hayti, be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Bingham introduced a bill to forfeit the property and slaves of persons who are in armed rebellion against the United States ; also, a joint resolution directing the Provost Court at Alexandria to retain and safely keep the property of those en ' gaged in or aiding rebellion until further action of Congresi upon the subject. Both were referred to the Committee on Judiciary. On motion of Mr. Blair, the thanks of Congress were tendered to the officers and soldiers under the late Gen. Lyon, and each regiment engaged in the battle of Springfield is to bear on its colors in gold letters the word Springfield." A long and somewhat spicy debate occurred on the consideration of the resolution that the President be requested to direct General Halle* to recall his order respecting fugitive slaves, in which ' Messrs. Lovejoy, Stevens, .Blair,Fouke and Julian participated. On motion of Mr. Kellogg, the matter was laid on the table by a vote of Ts to 64. The resolution looking to a recognition of the indepen ! dance of Hayti and Liberia was amended by direct ing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to inquire into ' the expediency of such action, and then adopted.— A discussion on the abolition of the franking privil lege was cat short by a message from the Senate an nouncing the death of Senator Baker. Eulogies ' were delivered by several Senators. • • President Lincoln occupied a seat beside Vioe President .Hamlin ' during the delivery of the eulo gies on the late Senator Baker. This is the first time, in the last quarter of a century, that the President, has visited. either House Mrs.. Lincoln was also present, and eat in the Diplomatic gallery. • Tureanar, December 12. The Senate did not accomplish very mueli today, most of the time being spent in t introduoing bills and resolutions. Among them were the following : A petition to repeal the law preventing Jewish divines ' from officiating aschaplains in the army ; memorials for the establishment of an-armory at Racine, Wis ' cousin; to authorize the President to fill up the corps of cadets at West Point. Mr. Wilson offered a resolution that the Inspector General, Quarter master General, and Commissary General of Sub sistence be directed to inform the Senate what articles ought to be sold by the Sutlers to volunteers, and such as beet would secure their efficiency—which was ag.reed to. Mr. Chandler- offered a resolution that the Military Committee be instructed to inquire lit r The recognition of the negro govern• into the expediency of appointing a Committee of merits of Ilayti and Liberia, and the establish- both-Houses to retire improper officers of the army. Mr. Doolittle offered, as a substitute, that the Com ment of diplomatic intercourse with them, is mitts° on Military Affairs be directed to inquire into ' destined to be one of the abolition hobbies of the expediency °f prov iding a more efficient mode of retiring any improper or incompetent officers of the present session of Congress. Senator the army, which was accepted and passed. The to e el Waldo P rom SUMNER and Mr. LOVEJOY of the House, have .resolution xP P. Johnson, Senator f Missouri, was, after-some: debate„ referral to the already mounted-it- -with a determination to Judiciary Committee. The bill to promote the efficiency of the nary was taken up and pawed. It drive it through ; and we entertain the opin provides for retiring officers who have been on the ion that they will be successful. Negro stock register for forty-five years, and that the President is above par in C j ust now. may select an officer from the grade of aaptein or ongress -commander, and assign' him , to the of a ' squadron, with-the rank of flag officer. It also pm, ffe - The Illinois Central Railroad Compa vides for two hundred medals of honor for petty 1.-1, officers and seamen as rewards of gallantry and are playing a very large game of cribbage, merit, and makes some further regulations in regard Along the line of their road, twelve miles south Ito navy yards. The Senate adjourned till Momday.The proceedings in the House were quite exciting. of Chicago, they are building eleven miles of Mr. Blair, on a question of privilege, read a private corn cribs, the capacity of which will be 3,- latterm Gen. Halleck explanung his order in reference ren f e r :to fugitive slaves', about which there was a 000,000 bushels. They are to receive corn debate in the House on Wednesday. This brought in payment for lands purchased of the Com . from Air. Lovejoy a statement of hie views-in regard . to what he deemed the true policy to be pursued pany • during the war in regard to slavery. - Mr. Blair, : from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill authorizing the raising of, a volunteer force for the batter defense. of Kentucky. It proposes to raise a volunteer force of twenty-thousand men for twelve months; to be employed within the limits of that State to repel invasion, and , guard and protect the public property ; but, whenever necessary, they may be employed temporarily outside of Kentucky. After some discussion, in which Mew!. Lovejoy, GOVERNOR. OF KANSAS. Wickliffe and Maynard partioipated,the considera tion of tbe bill was postponed -until Monday. The Hon. OEOBGE A. CRAWFORD (Union Demo- various p ro positionslvinglarthereation of =UM. invo , . orat) has been elected Governor of Kansas.— ovation then MINI up, sad • let, in. "Plena . tion of his rest:dation dieliiing slavery to be tha ,Crawford fornicrly a„cierk the, osl ui fo f, • szseadidied_ .00 - reilliary orders the dirar,, . Poet Office Department at Washington for the slnaripstion of the , dirt be lamed when "Mixon to WHOM Howoa is Dug." --Great credit is due to Officer Joan Humes, of the South West Ward, for the care he taken of the City Flag, in Centre Square. He ridges and lowers it, every morning - and eve ning, and had itnot Wen for his judicious care it would hive been in tatters long 'since. It is due; therefore, to this patriotic and.efficienapolica officer, theta note should made of the manner in which he has performed his self imposed duty. Of a kind-hearted and generous disposition, he never thinks it a hardship to devote his . spare time to the wants and wishes of hie fellow-citizens. The thanks of our whole community are due him. CAPT. PYPEWB COMPANY.—A correspondent, who signs himself "A. Member of Capt. Pyfees Company," writing from Camp Negley, Rentucky, under date of the sth kat., complains of the manner in - which the compiiiy has been treated, trepsferrhig them to Col. Btambaugh'e Regiment, etc. Bat he forgot one important thing, required by Printers, and that was to sign his hake.' We can. not, therefore, comply with the request to publish his communication. THE HOWARD EVENINGS.—ReV. D. P. ROS• 1211111.11 M delivered a very ebb and Interesting historical lecture, on the character of Regulus, before the Howard on Tueaday evening lest, which brought out an equally inter esting discussion, in which judge Hayes, Messrs. Barr, Wilson, Sypher, Cadwell and Mayor Sanderson participated. The lecture this evening will be delivered by Prot. A. R. BYERLY, of the State Normal School, Millersville. Subject: Does the Emotional Nature of Mall transcend the Intel lectual!" DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN POLICEMAN.— Maj. WILLIAM M. Oosin.v, for several years Constable of the South East Ward of this city, and latterly of Lancaster township, died very suddenly from a stroke of apoplexy, on Tuesday morning last, at his residence in West Orange street. Maj. G. was one of the kindesthearted of men, and generous to a fault. He leaves a widow and several children ton:Mara his sudden exit from time to eternity. Peace to his mama. HOLIDAY GIFTS.—Read Rhoads ,Sc Gillespie's Holiday advertisement in to-day's Intelligencer. Their shelves are filled with the choicest and nicest Holiday gift,. Our young friends are enterprising business men, and are bound to succeed, notwithstanding the dull times. A' FINE ENTERTAINMENT.—Messrs. BENJ.!, atm K. Doaweivr and JOHN Ham, "natives and to the manor born," gave a•firstclass entertainment at Fulton Hall, on last evening week, which was attended by a select, Intel. ligent and appreciating audience. The entertainment consisted of choice selections from the Poets, of a humorous an i pathetic turn, and fun, wit and sentiment were the order of the evening. It was decidedly one of the most agreeable entertainments given here for a long time, and our young amateurs may well feel proud of the r, putatlon they have made in their native city. Let us foster and encourage native talent. DISTRESSING AND FATAL ACCIDENT. —OD the evening of the 6th inst. Mr. Wittiest PIMEL, a prominent and highly esteemed citizen of Bart township, this county, met with an accident, resulting In his death, under the following circumstances: He had been down to Philadel phia, and it was understood his son was to meet him at Penningtonville with a carriage on Friday evening; for some reason not stated Mr. PICICIL came on to the Gap Station, and, it is supposed, then started down the road 'towards Christiana, expecting to meet the vehicle there which was to take him home. As the Lancaster train came up, a man was noticed standing on the road, directly over the culvert a short distance below the Gap, and as the train passed it was noticed that he had 'fallen off into the water, although the engineer was confident be had Pot been struck by the engine. The train was stopped, and Mr. PlOllll. found lying in the water, dead. It is supposed that in stepping back as the train passed he stepped off the culvert, and, stunned by the fall, was drowned, the water being sufficient to cover his face. His funeral took place on Monday, the 9th inst., and was attended by an immense concourse of people from the eat.- ern and southern parts Of .the county. His remains wero interred in the burial ground attached to the Big Octoraro Church. SENSITIV.E The Evening Bulletin, of Thursday last, manifests an unusual degree of nervousness at the prospects ahead. We clip the following from the editorial column: " We are in much danger, just now, as all great countries are in transition states. There is a disposition to depart from the old land marks. We are not objecting to new meas— ures ; such are necessary now. We only object to doing things on wrong principles, and to the usurping of power. It is well that Congress meets just now. We have no fears that they will obstruct the war. We need to remember that we are a free people, under constitutional law. We need strength so much, that we are in danger of despotic power. We do not object to Mr. Chase's plan for a gigantic national currency, controlled by the general government. It may be necessary; there are some obvious advantages in it. But we ask our readers to look at the tendency of it. Does it not look to a prodigious central power? At the same moment comes in the proposition of the Secretary of War, to make all the volunteers regulars, and give the sword to the President to the extent of 600,000 men, along with Mr. Chase's purse of two hundred millions of dollars. Some generals, too, seem to think that they must settle the politics of the nation as to its most sensitive and vital question." The Bulletin seems to think the country in a " transition state." From a Republic to what ? From freedom and independence to what? The Bulletin points directly to a union of the purse and the sword. A LITERART BANQUET.—The celebrated New York Mercury publishes its annual Pros pectus, for 1862, in our columns to day, and our readers will miss something if they fail to peruse it. The Mercury is not only the largest and cheapest literary paper in the world, but its groat serial Romances, Moral tales, eaquis• ite Poetry and General Miscellany are the very best published in this country. No other journal that we know of has anything like its famous contributorial corps d'elite and wonder ful variety of mental food. It is now in its 24th year, and has a stability that insures to all who subscribe for it a sure and rich return for the money invested. The New York Mercury for 1862 will be a paper that no American family can afford to be without.— Subscribe for it at once, we say. APPOINTMENT BY THE GOVERNOR.—Aaron K. Peckham, of Wyoming county, has been appointed President Judge of the 26th Judi oial District, in place of Hon. Warren J. Woodward, now President Judge of the Berke county District. Judge Peckman's comm'e sion will hold until the next general electior, and his appointment was unanimously urgrd by the bare of Columbia, Sullivan, and Wy oming counties. siti- Col. Muixices, the hero of Lexington, has not a very high opinion of Home Guards. He thinks them, like the Wide Awakes, " in vincible in peace and invisible in war." THIRTNEVENTIt CONGIBM-FIRST SESSION. MONDAY December 9. , Congress resumed "its session to day.! Petitions from several States, calling oa.Congress to legislate on emancipatan, wereTpneintrid to the Senate and referred to the Co mmittee on Judiciary. On motion of Mr.,Clarko resolution was passed requesting the Mar stull'of. the District of Columbia to inform the Sena 40What authority he keepcslaves of the district irg 1 immature they. are refractory. Mr. gale's resoln-` 1106 , araoting the4udiciary Committee to inquire into thetexpedieney, at abolishin g the present Su rime Vourt and esteMblhir,' g another, was discussed 3 0 01410 . Klaigrarberreiiiiirowning. Mr. Collamea shoved to a snliclitn& Haan portions of the Presi dent's Meese relating to thd judiciary be referred to the Committee on Judicialy, which was adopted. The resolution calling for a committee to investigate the causes of all the disasters that have happened to the Union forces, was agreed to by a vote of 33 to 3. The House adopted a joint resolution that the President be requested to inaugurate systematic measures for the exchange of prisoners in the present rebellion. Mr. Lovejoy introduced a resolution calling upon the Secretary of War to revoke that part of a late general order of Gen. Halleek's ex-- eluding fugitive slaves from the lines of the Union forces in Missouri, which was amended by a sub stitute requesting the President to recall the order and cause Con. to conforua._to the prat "... in the other departments of the army. After some discussion the subject was postponed. On motion. of Mr. Pessenden it wee resolved that the. Committee on the District of Columbia be requested to report the number of fugitive slaves that have been ',en dued in the government jail in Washington during the last one and a half Tears, s, by whom owned, whether any of these fugitive slaves have been re turned to their claimants, by what authority, and to whom, and also specifying what number, if any, have returned s h oe the order of Secretary Seward in reference to alleged fugitives, to whom and by , whom delivered. - ever they may avail to weaken the enemy. Mt Steele opposed these views, holding thattbe names*. eery agitation of slavery, and not slavery itself, wail the cause of the war. Per contra, Mr. Conway too a similar view to that advanced try. Mr. Eliott. Mr Fouke then asked - Mr. Conway if he deemed th battle of Belmont, Mo.; defeat for the Federal `Sr.oops, to which an a ffi TMlLthli answer being given ` li'otike pronounced the statement false. Thi caused great excitement, and Mr. Conway wished to knee whether the remarkmais intended as personal, hatilir. - Annan bad in the meat:WMe left the Ball. ThOficnte then adjourned WI Monday. WAR NEWS_ A Bailie Imminent in Kentucky CINOVSI7 . 4I.TI, December 11 The Gazette's Frankfort dis p atch says that when the stage left Somerset at 11 oclock on Wednesday, there had been no fighting. The Postmaster wrote : "We are expecting a fight hourly. The enemy. is close upon ns in force estimated at from 8,000 to 13,000. Our effective force is about 5,000. " Both soldiers and citizens complain of General Thomas for not having sent reinforcements to Gen. Schoepff before this; but as it cannot now interfere with the plans, it is not improper to state that Gen. Buel'S plan was, that Gen. Thomas should get in the rear of Zolliooffisr.." . . Letters to-night express apprehensions Of the re sult, should Zollicoffer's force General &Motif to an engagement before General Thomas arrives. An officer, arrived from London this evening, says that it was rumored that after the proket,fighting, Zollicoffer was again retreating. If this be true Gen. Thomas will not be in time to intercept him.— Troops continue to pour into Louisville. Four regi ments passed through yesterday. The Commercial's dispatch from Frankfort says that the Paymaster from London reports Crittenden at Cumberland Gap, with 1,500 rebels, and a large force in the vicinity. A letter to theltepresentative from Wayne county says that Major Helveti and three others oaptured with him were killed by the rebels after their cap ture: All the leading men have been driven from Owensville, Bath county,-and the town is in posses sion of 400 rebels, who are committing the greatest excesses. .- A lettter from Somerset,lly., dated the 7th, son firms the capture, by the rebels i ,of Major. lielveti and Captain Prince. J. R. Richardson, Postmaster at Somerset, Ky., writes, under data of the 10th, that Zolliooffer has crossed the Cumberland river 20 miles below Warts boro, on a bridge formed. of 'coal birges,-with from 9,000 to 15,000 troops. We exposit a fight to-morrow. The Federal forces under Gan. Satioepff are six regi ments and two batteries, The Democrat discredits the above, failing to get a conflynation_from its cor respondent. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS. Mr. COSKIANG, of New York, has proposed an act of wholesome and necessary legislation, which is thus described in the telegraphic report of Congressional proceedings : " Mr CONKLINC (N. Y.) introduced a bill to subject certain persons to military trial and punishment. It covers the cases of such as may enter into speculations for the purpose of defrauding the government, and- ho may offer bribes fur the advantages of furnishing tary stores, munitions of war, &c. Military and naval court martials are , authorized,— Those found guilty are to be punished with imprisonment for not less than two years. " He also said—The government has been cheated of large sums of money. There was a multitude or harpies, which no man could number, preying upon the vitals of the com— monwealth. They should bo punished with certain severity. lie repeated there wag: a class of desperate speculators who are deplet iiig the treasury to enormous amounts in a variety of ingenious modes. " Mr. DAWES (Mass.,) who is on the special committee to examine into government con— tracts, briefly spoke of the discoveries of fraud that have already been made. He said that without further legislation the treasury will become bankrupt." CONTRACTS.—The Washington correspon— dent of the New York Evening Foss intimates that certain contractors, occupying high places in the government, are beginning to grow nervous in anticipation of certain develop— ments. It says : " The evidences taken by the House Com— mittee of Investigation on Contracts is soon to be published, or a batch of it at least. Soma of the developments will not be pleasant to certain important gentlemen. The fact that some of the printed testimony has been stracted by the reporters of one or two journals was this morning brought before the commit— tee; and, upon the promise of the offendot being given not to offend again, they were dis charged with a slight reprimand. The busi— ness of stealing evidence from committee rooms should be made disreputable by the action of Congress, if the journals themselves , will not put an end to it." ter The New York Tribune, in an effort to be very funny and satirical against conserva tive men who hate Abolitionists, tells the truth so accurately and so masterly that we place its language before our readers : "An abolitionist ' is also an infidel, an agrarian, a foe of human government, a dupe of his conscience, a woman's rights man, an anti-Sabatarian, a spiritualist, a phrenolo gist, a rater-curer, a vegetarian, a Fourierite, and an opponent of tabacon and capital punish. meat. All male abolitionists wear beards. All female abolitionists are Bloomers.' All of them, being tainted by ' peace principles,' are avowedly in favor of insurrection, with fire, bloodshed, rape, anarchy, and a general whiz of everything." There never was a better picture drawn of an Abolitionist than this. It is a life-like por trait of the animal, and nobody is more com petent to draw a picture of this kind than Mr. GREELY, because he need only draw a likeness of himself in order to produce a perfect Abo litionist, and he has done it. THE MESSAGE IN WABEINGTON. —A letter from Washington says : " The universal topic of conversation in this city is the President's Message. Opinions about it differ aa , widely do the partisan preferences of the People. The ultra Abolition element in Con gress is sorely disappointed by the utter failure of their principles either on the Presi dent's Message or on any of the Secretaries' reports. This class of politicians declare the message to be tame and ineffective. On the other hand, the moderate men of all parties are highly pleased. The absence of all pas— sion, boasting and threats in the Message, and the kind and catholic spirit exhibited towards the deluded people of the insurgent States, are regarded as the highest evidence of a lofty statesmanship. As the moderate men com pose nine tenths of the population of the coun try, the Message will doubtless meet with popularity." TAE TABLES TURNING We learn that a large number of Rope)H ems, who indulged pretty freely iu denounc ing Denalcrats as being secessioniats and traitors, havebeen arrested in Montgomery county, and bound over for trial at Court.— There has been some talk of arresting a few in this county. It might do some good, though we doubt the propriety. Popular sen timent in this section is beginning to assume a more healthy tone, and many who, a short time since, justified mob law, burglary, and robbery, ect., where it did not affect their interests. are beginning to (*moulage these acts. —WestChester Jegersonian. NEW COUNTERFEIT.— A new and dangerous counterfeit Two Dollar bill on the Farmers' Bank of Schuylkill County, Pu., has just ap— peared. The one detected is described as follows: Letter A., No. 2135. dated August Ist. 1861. Not like genuine. Washington on right corner. Fall female figure On left.— Vignette, Boy reclining on a basket' with sickle in left hand, sheaves of wheat in cen tre, and house in the distance. It is very well executed. Better refuse all two's correspon ding with the above. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN MASSACHUSETtS.- Boston, •Dec. 9th., Mayor Wightman was re elected. to-day by 1000 majority over Tobey, the Republican candidate. In Lowell, Mr. Elosford was elected' Mayor over Graves, Republican. P. M. Neal, was elected Mayor 'of Lynn ; Wm. Gaston re elected Mayor of Roxbury ; P. J. Stone elected Mayor' of Charlestown, sail P. E. Aldrich, Mayor of Worcester. Ceo. W. Jackman was re elected Mayor of Newhuryport by an almost unanimous vote. A POINTED RESOLUTION. — The following resolution was adoptsd at a meeting held in Wabash county, 111. Resolved, That although the Democrats' were strangers to the covenant made with Abritham at Chicago, yet they are made partaken of the blessings conferred upon the country under that covenant. OFFICIAL VOTE IN NEW YORE NEW YORK, Dee:l3. Tim Board of Canvaersers hays cOnoluded the official count'of -the vote coat at the'iecent municipal election for . -t Mayor.. The %count gives Opdyke (Rep.)..- , 1,213 majority,over ifelod,. and 6 . 14 over -
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